{"id":1666,"date":"2009-08-12T13:22:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T19:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2009-08-12T13:22:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T19:22:22","slug":"vacation-linkorama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1666","title":{"rendered":"Vacation Linkorama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li>Glad to see that whole <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB124967502810515267.html\">culture of corruption<\/a> think has been handled.  There are a few R&#8217;s on that list.<\/li>\n<li>More healthcare commentary from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/06\/AR2009080602933.html\">Krauthammer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/08\/06\/AR2009080602933.html\">Samuelson<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204908604574332293172846168.html#articleTabs%3Darticle\">WSJ<\/a> and the the owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204251404574342170072865070.html\">Whole Foods<\/a> (who, in a shock, says we should shop at his stores to save the country).  It would be nice if the GOP and the healthcare protesters would offer up some ideas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/blog\/show\/135354.html\">Welch<\/a> on the people trying to link healthcare opposition to racism.  One of the interesting things about the Obama machine is that they have resisted playing the race card.  The reason, I think, is that they understand that the race card, if played, will effectively end Obama&#8217;s presidency.  We will spend the rest of it arguing race instead of policy.  The race card has become the Godwin&#8217;s Law of our time.  Once invoked, it immediately discredits the invoker &#8212; and that would apply even if the opposition <i>were<\/i> a bunch of racist lunatics.<\/li>\n<li>An absolute <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/drugreporter\/141866\/the_epidemic_of_pot_arrests_in_new_york_city\/?page=entire\">must read<\/a> from Alternet about the wave of NYC pot arrests.  This is an incredible waste of time, money and young men&#8217;s lives.<\/li>\n<li>Will the Feds taking over student loans save money?  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato-at-liberty.org\/2009\/08\/11\/things-grow-worse-so-fast-these-days\/\">Nope<\/a>.  But you knew that already.<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glad to see that whole culture of corruption think has been handled. There are a few R&#8217;s on that list. More healthcare commentary from Krauthammer and Samuelson and the WSJ and the the owner of Whole Foods (who, in a shock, says we should shop at his stores to save the country). It would be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=1666\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vacation Linkorama<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-qS","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1678,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions\/1678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}